SC to hear Ayodhya verdict deferment plea today

NEW DELHI: A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by the Chief Justice of India, will hear a petition and is expected to decide today on whether verdict on the Ayodhya land dispute case should be deferred or not.

Last week, on September 23, a Supreme Court interim order had restrained the Allahabad High Court from pronouncing the verdict in the four title suits. The verdict of the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court was to have been delivered a day later.

A petition filed before the Supreme Court by retired bureaucrat Ramesh Chand Tripathi has sought that the verdict be deferred to allow the contesting parties to arrive at some sort of settlement.

But the Central Board of Wakfs, the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board and the All-India Hindu Maha Sabha have pleaded for vacating the stay and allowing the High Court to pronounce the verdict.

SP Seeks CBI Probe In Bureaucrat’s Suicide

TrendPK.com SP Seeks CBI Probe In Bureaucrat’s Suicide:The rank and file of the bureaucracy in Uttar Pradesh is in a state of shock after the principal secretary of housing, Harminder Raj Singh, shot himself with his own weapon at his residence in Lucknow on Sunday.

TrendPK.com SP Seeks CBI Probe In Bureaucrat’s Suicide:The rank and file of the bureaucracy in Uttar Pradesh is in a state of shock after the principal secretary of housing, Harminder Raj Singh, shot himself with his own weapon at his residence in Lucknow on Sunday.
Sources say that the senior IAS officer had [...]